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gall bladder

noun

  1. a muscular pear-shaped sac, lying underneath the right lobe of the liver, that stores bile and ejects it into the duodenum through the common bile duct
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Gently gripping the patient's gall bladder.

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It wasn't long before he had removed the troublesome gall bladder with the help of his robotic assistant.

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Bile duct cancer affects the bile ducts, which are small tubes within the digestive system which connect organs including the liver and gall bladder.

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Gently gripping the patient's gall bladder.

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It wasn't long before he had removed the troublesome gall bladder with the help of his robotic assistant.

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